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Pro-Free Speech Social Media Platform Parler Is Back Online

Tré Goins-Phillips : Feb 16, 2021
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"Parler was built to offer a social media platform that protects free speech and values privacy and civil discourse..." -Mark Meckler, interim CEO

[Faithwire.com] The conservative social media platform Parler—known primarily as a free-speech alternative to Twitter—is back online. (Screengrab image)

Google, Apple, and Amazon removed the Parler app from their respective marketplaces in early January, following the riot inside the US Capitol, arguing participants used the platform to organize. Ultimately, Amazon's cloud hosting service terminated its contract with the social media site, essentially removing it from the internet altogether.

Parler, which is funded largely by Republican donor and Trump supporter Rebekah Mercer, announced Monday its website is back online and will reestablish access this week to those who had accounts before it was shut down.

The development comes as Tea Party co-founder and attorney Mark Meckler has stepped in as interim CEO after Parler co-founder John Matze was fired from the position by the company's board earlier this month... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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